"After an unsuccessful bid to become Uganda’s next president, Bobi Wine and his supporters continue to be persecuted by a government they accuse of abductions and torture." This VICE News Video Report about what is happening in Uganda is worth watching and sharing. Please also read this page on the Petition to the UN Human … Continue reading VICE News Video Report from UGANDA
INVESTIGATING WHY 80% OF SIGNATURES ARE MISSING ON UGANDA PETITION
If you have signed the Petition to the UN Human Rights Council about the ongoing abuses by the military regime in Uganda, PLEASE READ ON and help with the investigation as to why up to 80% of signatures are missing. It could be that your name is one of the missing names. I realised early … Continue reading INVESTIGATING WHY 80% OF SIGNATURES ARE MISSING ON UGANDA PETITION
“Why We Are Coming” – a book worth reading
"Why We Are Coming" is a well-researched and interesting book by Yasin Kakande (his third), a Ugandan writer and journalist living as an asylum-seeker and, like so many migrants, currently working as a carer in the USA. The overall theme is about migration and why there have been mass movements of people around the world … Continue reading “Why We Are Coming” – a book worth reading
SAD DAY FOR UGANDA – Wednesday 12th May 2021
Tomorrow, Wednesday 12th May 2021 is a very sad day for Uganda. Why? Because Museveni (aka M7), who seriously rigged the Presidential elections in UGANDA on 14th January, has planned his swearing-in ceremony tomorrow, in spite of all the evidence that indicates that Bobi Wine (Robert Kyagulanyi) won the election and is therefore the … Continue reading SAD DAY FOR UGANDA – Wednesday 12th May 2021
“Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the oppressor.”
What is YOUR position or view about the ongoing human rights abuses in Uganda? Have you done ANYTHING about the serious abuses being perpetrated daily by Museveni and his military regime in Uganda? Or are you silently complicit with the human rights violations in Uganda? "Silence in the face of injustice is complicity … Continue reading “Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the oppressor.”
RULE OF LAW IN UGANDA
This post contains four reports. 1. UGANDA'S POSITION in the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index for 2020: Report just released Factors assessed include Fundamental Rights, Constraints on Government Powers, Corruption and Rule of Law amongst others. I hope Museveni doesn't feel too satisfied that Uganda was not at the bottom of the list of … Continue reading RULE OF LAW IN UGANDA
SLIGHT SHIFT IN UK’s ATTITUDE TO MUSEVENI – 22nd April 2021
Stephen Doughty, Shadow Minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and International Development, who has raised the issues in Uganda several times, has once again asked the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs "what representations the UK High Commissioner has made to the Government of Uganda on alleged disappearances of and attacks on opposition activists … Continue reading SLIGHT SHIFT IN UK’s ATTITUDE TO MUSEVENI – 22nd April 2021
UPDATE ON BOBI WINE’S VEHICLE
URA Orders Bobi Wine to pay over Sh300m in taxes for his Armoured Vehicle or forget it: Article in Uganda's Daily Express22nd April 2021 The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has told Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine, to either pay Shs 300m in taxes or forget about his armoured vehicle In a … Continue reading UPDATE ON BOBI WINE’S VEHICLE
BOBI WINE: “It drains you when you do the right thing.”
TWO ARTICLES about UGANDA were published in the New York Times on 11th April 2021, written by Abdi Latif Dahir, the East Africa correspondent for the NYT. In the first article, Abdi wrote that "Bobi Wine was quick to admit that his increasingly lonely and uphill fight had left him psychologically and physically exhausted. 'It … Continue reading BOBI WINE: “It drains you when you do the right thing.”
LISTEN TO UGANDANS
Ten days ago, I asked Ugandans on Twitter what they would like to say to us in the West about the current situation and what we can do. This is what some of them said: 1. Dear friends of Uganda. Thanks for funding for so many years. But sorry, no development because Museveni is killing … Continue reading LISTEN TO UGANDANS
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